From the desk of Joseph Green

DURING MY THIRTY-ONE YEARS at the Kennedy Space Center I spent six of them working at what was then called Unmanned Launch Operations, or ULO; first for a two-year stint, and later on a four. I did no real work on the first two American manned space programs, Mercury...

STEPHEN PINKER, a Harvard professor and author of several popular science books (The Blank Slate being perhaps the best known) last year wrote a short but potent article discussing the ongoing clashes between science and popular culture, religion, and the humanities....

I RETIRED FROM NASA (as Deputy Chief, KSC Education Office) at the end of 1996. I've now been retired more years than I worked for any one employer (the longest two, NASA 13, Boeing 11). And in some ways these so-called 'Golden Years' are indeed the best of my life....

MOST PEOPLE ARE UNAWARE that I'm the author of the first DAW novel. The reason that fact is not well know is fairly straightforward. Don wanted to start his new line with some big names. He persuaded two of the then biggest, Andre Norton and A.E. van Vogt, to...